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-- 2020-04-01 21:24:29
China Harbour Engineering Company Limited (CHEC), a state owned company of China has come forward to help Bangladesh in its fight against coronavirus. The company has donated 3,000 coronavirus detect...
FE Online Desk 2020-04-01 19:10:34
Eastern Bank Ltd (EBL) has donated BDT 50 million to the Prime Minister's Relief and Welfare Fund to help fight the outbreak of coronavirus. The bank handed over the money through Bangladesh Associat...
-- 2020-04-01 18:45:45
Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi has said the readymade garment (RMG) industry will get loan on two per cent interest. “It isn’t a grant. The loan will have to be repaid within a certa...
-- 2020-04-01 18:36:13
For the first time since 1972, no passenger crossed the border through Hili check post on Tuesday as India is enforcing a countrywide lockdown and Bangladesh has limited the movement of people to cont...
REUTERS 2020-04-01 16:06:25
India will likely relax some export restrictions on pharmaceutical products soon due to intense pressure from the United States, which is worried about drug shortages as the number of coronavirus case...
-- 2020-04-01 15:59:19
More than 95 per cent of brands and retailers refused to contribute to the cost of partial wages for garment factory workers who were temporarily suspended in Bangladesh. A study was conducted by the...
FE Online Desk 2020-04-01 14:48:51
Eastern Bank Ltd (EBL) made a contribution of Taka 50 million to the Prime Minister's Relief and Welfare Fund to help fight the outbreak of coronavirus, says a press statement on Wednesday. The bank...
-- 2020-04-01 13:52:39
Over 2,000 workers of Benapole Land Port have been jobless for past nine days as the export-import activities through the port remained suspended since March 24 in a bid to prevent the spread of coron...
MONIRA MUNNI 2020-04-01 10:39:29
A number of top global apparel brands on Tuesday assured their local suppliers that they (brands) would receive shipments of goods already produced, sources said. The buyers include M&S, Target,...
FE Report 2020-04-01 10:29:40
The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has decided to start issuing no objection certificate (NOC) 'partly' to the country's largest mobile phone operator Grameenphone (GP). In...
FE REPORT 2020-04-01 10:23:26
The local poultry industry and related businesses were facing substantial losses due to the coronavirus outbreak, industry insiders said. They estimated the losses to be Tk 11.50 billion till April 0...
OUR CORRESPONDENT 2020-04-01 10:13:53
The Chattogram Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI), the oldest trade body of the country, has submitted ten proposals to the government for saving the trade and business, export and import in the...
FE Report 2020-04-01 09:54:34
The government is set to launch open market sale (OMS) of key essential items today (Wednesday) to keep prices within the buying capacity of the common people ahead of upcoming Eid-ul-Fitre. Trading...
FE REPORT 2020-04-01 09:47:53
Manufacturing units, having at least eighty per cent export-oriented business, will be eligible to get loans from the government-announced Tk 50-billion stimulus package, designed to pay salary of the...
Arafat Ara 2020-04-01 09:42:00
Bangladeshis working on a contract basis in Malaysia are worried about their future as they remain out of work due to the lockdown to fight the spread of new coronavirus there, workers and insiders...
JASIM UDDIN HAROON 2020-04-01 09:41:52
The delivery of perishable goods from refrigerated containers at the Chittagong port has slowed in the aftermath of the new coronavirus outbreak in the country, officials say. A refrigerated containe...
FE Report 2020-04-01 09:26:40
Electricity generation across the country dropped by around 20 per cent due to a fall in its demand as most of industrial units, offices and businesses remained shut to stem the spread of Coronavirus....
-- 2020-03-31 20:04:19
A surge in the use of mobile internet data has been offset by a drop in the number of voice calls in Bangladesh amid a nationwide shutdown over the spread of the coronavirus, according to telecom oper...
-- 2020-03-31 13:39:45
Britons made over 79 million extra grocery shopping trips in the four weeks to March 21 year-on-year as they stocked their “pandemic pantries”, driving a 20.5 per cent jump in supermarket...
Reuters 2020-03-31 12:41:53
Ford Motor said on Monday (US standard time) it will produce 50,000 ventilators over the next 100 days at a plant in Michigan in cooperation with General Electric’s healthcare unit, and can then...
-- 2020-03-31 11:41:19
Toyota Motor Vietnam (TMV) has temporarily suspended vehicle production in order to prevent the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak from spreading, Vietnam News Agency reported. The outbreak has impacted...
Munima Sultana 2020-03-31 10:15:06
The Roads and Highways Department (RHD) has started the process of settling the Tk 5.0-billion claims of Japanese contractors through a third-party opinion. The builders worked on a big project to...
-- 2020-03-31 09:52:46
American Airlines has confirmed it will seek $12 billion (£9.7 billion) of financial support from the US government because of the impact of coronavirus. Employees were told in an email this "w...
JASIM UDDIN HAROON 2020-03-31 09:43:54
Businessmen have been passing time by reading books, watching videos or doing indoor exercise as they stay home, compelled by nationwide shutdown. Some said they have been involved in office work ove...
-- 2020-03-30 20:23:18
Buyers have so far cancelled orders of readymade garment (RMG) products worth US$ 2.87 billion till Monday afternoon in the wake of coronavirus outbreak, according to BGMEA sources. About 1,041 facto...
Mir Mostafizur Rahaman 2020-03-30 19:43:06
The Office of the Ombudsman of the European Union (EU), turned down the plea for withdrawal of GSP facilities by the EU for Bangladesh for violating labour rights. The EU Ombudsman also declared the...
-- 2020-03-30 18:28:53
The prices of daily essentials fell significantly in Dhaka’s kitchen markets as hundreds of thousands of people left the capital during the government announced holiday to prevent the spread of...
-- 2020-03-30 18:11:01
In a letter to the customers, Mr Rahel Ahmed, managing director and CEO of Prime Bank Limited urges all to maintain social distance to combat coronavirus and also assures that the bank will continue t...
-- 2020-03-30 15:38:51
Vietnam has asked its local mask producers to ramp up their production to make 5.0 million masks a day, the government said on Monday, as coronavirus cases in the country rise to 200. “The Mini...
FE Online Report 2020-03-30 15:10:28
The state owned Carew & Co (Bangladesh) Ltd has ramped up its production of hand sanitizers following the growing demand of it among the people, official said. The company has been producing hand...
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